Choke on unrecognized labels now
Begin parser for voteview rollcall info. (Currently supports up to the 106th Congress.)
Yes! Handle multiple nominees. I think this wraps major work on this scraper (until we transition to Congress.gov.
documented nomination scraper
other readme tweaks
Ditching control number
Grab position for blocks of batch nominations
title
Pull committee names from action text and match to committee ids. Fails on occassions when the committee name is truncated in actions, such as 'House Intelligence' rather than 'House Intelligence (Permanent Select)'.
voteview: determine which session of Congress the vote occurs in using GovTrack's sessions.tsv, hook into vote_info.output_vote() for writing JSON and XML, and separate the president's position from Member votes
voteview: make sure we're using the right .ord/.dtl URLs by scraping the .htm page listed on voteview.com for <a> hrefs, and report date parsing problems
Merge @GPHemsley's voteview roll call data parser
Refactor bill_info to look for committee names separately from identifying referrals. Updated utils.fetch_committee_names to alias so we still get matches when parentheticals are omitted.
Merge pull request #87 from dcloud/master

Pull committee names, ids from bill actions; simplify detection of referral action types
For anyone who's using pyenv, default to Python v2.7.5
Shored up committee detection, accepting some warnings for ambiguous committees (e.g. Appropriations, Budget, Judiciary, when mentioned without a parent committee chamber)
Be bolder about assuming committee chamber-ship using bill origin
in 'fdsys --list-collections', show the years for which data is available for each collection
Script to scrape the house floor upcoming bills and download them as json.
Adds some fields from the XML into upcoming bills.